Bristol's best fish and chip shops

Posted on: 02 Jun 2017

To celebrate National Fish and Chip Day, we have compiled a haul of the best chippies in Bristol for your dining pleasure. Feast your eyes.

As Peter Kay once so wisely intoned, on Friday night you have to have a chippie tea – it’s the law. And on this particular Friday, we have license to be particularly chipper, as today marks National Fish and Chip Day! To celebrate, we have assembled a list of the best outlets of the national dish in all of Bristol to whet your appetite and inform your choice – enjoy!

 

 

Sitting on the corner at the foot of Park Street is Catch 22, an all-encompassing fish and chippie perfectly comfortably in hosting dining parties or bagging up your battered goods to take away. The culinary monopoly they hold over the residents of a sunny College Green is reflective of the quality of their produce, which extends far beyond the traditional offerings of cod, chips and mushy peas – though these themselves are excellent. Check out a menu here.

 

In pride of plaice in the Clifton Village is the (aptly named) Clifton Village Fish Bar. The airs of salt and vinegar, which waft as far as the White Lion to the west and The Lansdown to the east, have the populous of the leafy suburb caught hook, line and sinker, with the word justifiably drifting much further than that.

 

The one qualm with the Chandos Fish Bar is the slightly miserly student deal (half price mushy peas on a Wednesday – come on!), but the folk there, quite literally, have bigger fish to fry. Set, as you might expect, on the bustling student centre of Chandos Road, the price is far from eye-watering and represents good value for the portion size. They also stock a selection of Pieminister pies – which is definitely a good thing.

 

Sitting, as it does, within the raucous context of the bouncing Gloucester Road, the Bishopston Fish Bar (Fishopston, anyone?) caters as much to discerning batter aficionados as is does to revellers who are slightly, ahem, battered. And whilst both sets are equally appreciative, it is the former who have decorated the shop with countless accolades on account of their fries and fish. Well worth a visit whether your peckish, inebriated or both.

 

Recently accruing fame for being the chipper of choice for local lad/world-renowned DJ Eats Everything – and for being the unlikely location of a Boiler Room set from the man himself in 2015 – Farrow’s had been a firm favourite for the fish fans of Totterdown for decades previous. And rightly so - you would be hard-pressed to catch a better batter south of the river.

 

Though you might have to trek out to Hanham for a trip to George’s Fish Bar, you will find your chippy pilgrimage rewarded with a top quality bite. Or alternatively, grab a portion via Just Eat. The age we live in!